Toward the end of 2005, a few members of the MC Forum thought to try to set up some awards, to try to honor and acknowledge some of more excellent mind control story-writing of the past year, and to remind people of some of the great things that might have been have missed. To that end, an awards panel was established, to try create and run this event. The members of this panel, based on their MC Forum/EMCSA writing pseudonyms, were: Darkmind, Rinky Dink, flibinite, Topaz172, and Nab. All are quite active members on the MC Forum, and all but Nab are posted authors of MC erotica.
The Awards panel established some rules for nominating and voting, including limiting the nominated stories to only those actually completed in 2005, from any source site (mainly the Erotic Mind Control Story Archive and the MC Forum, itself, for the first Awards). Also, seven award categories were decided upon — five 2005 story awards, using the color-code designations from the EMCSA as a criterion, a Classic Story award, for ground-breaking stories written prior to 2005, and a special Achievement Award, to be given to any individual whose contributions to MC erotica goes above and beyond the call of all others.
(The Spiral Awards has no other relation to the MC Forum than that the members of the panel are active members of the forum.)
We of the panel hope that this will be the start of a long history of recognizing and rewarding the best in Erotic Mind Control literature.